Auto correct strikes again :)

The occupation and names I think are random and usually a joke, too.

See also:

• Men who think the barista likes them because they read their name from a cup.
• Men who think they don't need to tip their waitress and instead leave their number instead.
• Men who expect a happy ending when getting a massage and again, don't leave a tip when they're sent away without one.

Ate the nonion, as it were.

Ah I love putting in sick ASCII art into my notes in R and other programming syntax. My advisors did not appreciate it as much as I did.

Felt a bit heavy handed in writing, but once I got to the asshole "sell a cow and buy a bull" I laughed because I've actually seen that idiotic meme before. Gets a pass from me!

Reminds me that AI can be used for OG Baulders Gate / Icewind Dale style character portraits. Stable Diffusion literally has a Lora for it, iirc.

That was technically my thinking too, haha. If you're ever targeted by this (and it can be as simple as having a Google image placeholder in an unindexed page) you just need to be stubborn and spiteful. It's not worth their time with so many other patsies, haha.

I think it's funny they'll probably paint this as him being a bigger target because Chaaaaina wants Harris to win. But we know it's probably because his people are inept and Harris (and probably DNC, and Dems in general) probably receive more attention and just don't open malicious emails as often.

Not that DNC isn't inept... Just uh... Less inept.

Reminds me of my kids slinky she messed up. That building will never be the same after the giant toddler played with it...

Having been sued by copyright vultures, I definitely get the difficulty with court. The minimum just to have a lawyer retainer was 2500. The vultures told us to essentially give them 2400 and the problem would go away (a strongly worded email managed to get them off my back, but mostly because they clearly used bots).

I can see it weed out small cases less than that. I guess it'd help if I knew what people were sueing over.

Oh man, my independent station is wild sometimes. It swaps between a lot of genres, from punk to classical. They played an Earthbound video game cover once, even. My npr station is relatively fine too.

Corpos 100% ruin radio, though, and that's been true for a long time. Stations often get incentives to pay the same songs and that's only gotten worse with time. True across all popular genres, too.

Yeah no, that's just a cranky old guy thought. Just today I was watching fairly average looking people promoting music on late shows. You're probably getting a very thin slice of pop music and ignoring everything else (and hell, even pop breaks that rule sometimes).

Plus, physical beauty and music are both subjective. I try to not get all "old man yells at cloud" about how music "used to be better".

Pleeeease, don't threaten us with a good time.

Seriously, we don't need a extra layer of inaction on top of a government already designed to move slowly. That's the whole point of having three branches of government, you already have to compromise even without the filibuster unless you sweep (and at this point a sweep is well deserved!).

Although I guess I'm ok with the talking version. It'd be fun to watch those old assholes suffer an all nighter speaking non stop. Wouldn't ever pull it off.

Seems like a good thing?

I was wondering if it was related to anything passed recently, because another service had to change privacy rules to opt in over a rule change in Cali. I just assume if it sounds like a good thing for consumers, it probably wasn't their choice, lol, but I guess in this case it's just a cost cutting measure.

I at least appreciate them being pretty clear about what's different now.

Mine actually started crashing when I opened it, so yeah. Luckily I live in a grid so it's not really hard to figure it out myself.

I found out today a moron I went to grad school with published a successful book. He's also an "important" person's son, though, so it's less of a jealous thing more of the "this world's fucked" thing.

My PhD isn't super useful though so yeah, throw it in the remorse file.

I had to update my LG recently and it had to get approval for all sorts of weird shit. Oddly enough, it let me continue using just about everything even after I denied all the very invasive checkboxes. I guess even they can't deny use of your own tv if you reject the agreement lol

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I needed a reference picture to give remote tech support to my octogenarian grandma. Circles were my addition.